United Nations official says though climate change intensifies disasters like cyclones, floods and droughts, planning means events kill fewer people.
As climate change makes disasters such as cyclones, floods and droughts more intense, more frequent and striking more places, fewer people are dying from those catastrophes globally because of better warning, planning and resilience, a top United Nations official said. The world hasn't really noticed how the type of storms that once killed tens or hundreds of thousands of people now only claim handfuls of lives, new United Nations Assistant Secretary-General Kamal Kishore, who heads the U.N.
It's much like public health's efforts to eradicate measles, success in most places, but areas that can least cope are not improving, she said. India and Bangladesh are poster nations for better dealing with disasters and preventing deaths, especially in cyclones, Guha-Sapir said.
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